The Magic of Mushrooms
You've heard the phrase from Hippocrates, "Let food by thy medicine". And while to some people fungi may not be considered "food", there are several that having healing properties. I was first introduced to medicinal mushrooms by my husband who learned about them...
What’s In Your….. Toothpaste???
Yep, I want to talk about toothpaste. It's one of those everyday items that we use and most of us don't even think about it. Kind of like soap. But you should think about it.... specifically, what is in it? What the are active ingredients? The inactive...
The Healing Spices: Tumeric
Tumeric vs. Curry Powder... what's the difference? The natural medicine world has been praising the powerful healing benefits of tumeric in the past few years because it has healing benefits like: Anticancer Anti aging/anti wrinkles Anti inflammatory...
Elderberry Syrup- What’s All the Fuss About?
I'll admit that I'm a little late jumping on the wagon with elderberry syrup for the simple reason that I have several different "tools" in my bag. But during a recent bout of flu-like symptoms that ran through our family, I decided to try out this all natural...
A Healthy Gut is a Happy Gut… which makes me a happy person
A few years ago, I began hearing about the importance of gut health. But what did that mean, “gut health”? For me it meant that if you had no heartburn, diarrhea or constipation, your gut was healthy. But then I began learning about probiotics to support the good...
Nourish Your Life with efficient and effective exercise
Just like with food, how we move (meaning the type of exercise that we do) has an impact on the types of messages our hormones receive. What do you do for exercise and fitness? There is no “right” or “wrong” way to move our bodies. The key however, is that we...
Is it your imagination or your reality?
We all want different things for our life. They can be material things, or things related to relationships, our job or even our health. Sometimes we get these things but other times we are so “stuck” in the doing the everyday routine that we forget to even think about...
Are You Ready to REALLY Detox?
We live in a toxic world, don’t we? There are toxic chemicals in our food, in the air we breathe and the products that we use every day. Some of these toxins we can avoid, some we can’t. We all want to be healthy and so we make as many healthy choices as we can…...
Why I Can’t Be Healthy NOW???
I'm not a very patient person. I don't want to spend an hour doing a workout. I don't want to wait for my food to cook. I want to want what I want and I want it NOW! (yeah, you'll need to read that sentence again slowly in order to get it, because it's not a typo...
This is NOT Medicine
I wanted to comment about something that I keep reading about: the FDA sending warning letters to essential oil companies. Why? Because I think there is an important a point to be made. I'm a pharmacist. My job is to sell medications to people to make them better.......